Vitali Kremez, chairman and CEO of AdvIntel, has been discovered lifeless after going lacking on Oct. 30. He was 36 years previous.
The US Coast Guard introduced on Wednesday that the physique of the longtime safety researcher and moral hacker had been recovered from the ocean, after days of looking out alongside the Florida coast. He had final been seen final seen “sporting a black wetsuit and scuba tank whereas diving close to Hollywood Beach, Fla.,” in line with the Coast Guard.
According to native studies, he went into the water round 9 a.m. EDT on Sunday, and didn’t return.
Peers, supporters, and admirers started providing condolences on Wednesday. “This is an extremely heart-breaking loss for the world,” tweeted Danny Aga, vp at managed safety supplier Solis Security. “VK was a superhero and will probably be missed by many.”
Kremez’s profession has been a storied one, with wunderkind overtones. After graduating summa cum laude from John Jay College of Criminal Justice on the City University of New York (CUNY), he loved a profitable profession as a cybercrime investigative analyst for the New York County District Attorney’s Office. There, he partnered with federal and worldwide legislation enforcement on a spread of cybercrime busts, together with prosecuting intrusions at American Express, Goldman Sachs, Saks Fifth Avenue, and StubHub.
He then rapidly catapulted into a spread of top-tier trade positions, together with as head of SentinelLabs at SentinelOne, and director of superior analysis at Flashpoint. In 2020, Kremez took the helm at Advanced Intelligence (AdvIntel), the place he led an elite menace intelligence workforce and guided know-how growth to assist proactive cyber-threat disruptions. Throughout all of it, he has devoted himself to moral hacking efforts, information-sharing, and malware analysis.
Kremez was additionally a prolific blogger and trade columnist (contributing articles to Dark Reading, BusinessReview, and Infosecurity Magazine, amongst others), and a go-to trade commentator on cybercrime, hacking incidents, and coverage. He additionally delivered keynote shows at NATO’s 2018 summit and to the United Nations, and spoke commonly at cybersecurity trade occasions.
“My coronary heart is damaged for his household and for the nice future he had,” tweeted Gate 15 threat administration analyst and podcaster Andy Jabbour. “He [was] such an extremely sensible and wonderful particular person.”